Policewomen (1974)

Lacey Bond is a policewoman in a man's world.  After single handedly foiling a major jailbreak, Lacey is recruited to work undercover.  But first she's going to have to prove that she can do such manly things as target shoot, drive a car, and do martial arts.  Things a woman obviously can't do.  Oh stupid woman, how will you ever survive without a man leading the way?

After a series of tests, the three men are split on their opinion.  One was very impressed with Lacey.  Another is on the fence because she's a woman.  The last is convinced that when faced with adversity, the little lady will surely break a heel, meltdown in a fit of tears and go back to the kitchen where she belongs.

Lacey spends much of the film being overly sarcastic to anyone who says she's not qualified for the job or suggests shes a woman.  The men spend much of the film speaking condescendingly to Lacey and trying to put the little lady in her place, which  apparently should be helpless and subservient to man.

Lacey is paired up with a male partner to do some undercover work.  They are to go to Catalina, pose as a vacationing couple, and get information on a drug shipment.  But they spend most of their time by the pool and in the hotel.  Also her partner grosses all of us out by keeping his wallet down the front of his swim trunks, yuck.

The two turn out to be lousy spies as they end up following drug lord Maud and her all girl gang out into the ocean where there is supposed to be a drug pick up.  Here's a tip - if you can tell one of the girls is someone you previously busted, then she'll probably be able to see and recognize you as well.

Ridiculously after they board Maud's boat, the male partner is beaten up. Luckily Lacey beats up everyone else and makes sure the gang gets arrested.  Then she sails Maud's boat back to the marina, claiming she found it adrift.  Yes, nothing odd about that.  It's certainly not unusual to be swimming out in commercial fishing lanes in the middle of the ocean.

Later Lacey manages to infiltrate the gang after being suspected of working for the police. But before this, she lets them beat the hell out of her and threaten to kill her  and never tries to defend herself.  Yet she's a martial arts expert that can take down a huge man.

Watch for the Gold Smuggling scene where the girls pretend the gold painted bricks they are unloading are actually heavy gold.  One girl  carries the brick all hunched over with her arms handing down by her knees. Yes, that certainly convinced me that you're carrying real gold.

I think this may be a TV edit as the words god damn were removed from the film. Also I had read there was a scene with male nudity, but there wasn't any in the version I saw.

I actually enjoyed this one, although it was slow at times.  But the 1970s fashion and ridiculous sexism were laughable.